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[Scott Koranda <>]

Hi Bruno,

The problem is that I need the single instance of the loader to always
be running, and it is the scheduling capabilities of the loader that I
need to work with. CRON and START_TO_START_INTERVAL are close to what
I need but not quite. I am sure I can figure out a plan to get buy.

Cheers,

Scott

On Wed, Jul 9, 2014 at 2:28 PM, Bruno Wolff III 
<>
 wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 09, 2014 at 02:08:28PM -0500,
>  Scott Koranda 
> <>
>  wrote:
>>
>> Understood.
>>
>> This issue is that we want the loader jobs to run as often as possible
>> to help beat down provisioning latency. But at certain times of the
>> year (when semesters turn over) the amount of work, and hence the
>> amount of time it takes for the loader job to run, spikes. The danger
>> then is that two instances run at the same time.
>>
>> I do not see how to reconcile those requirements/needs with CRON so I
>> was testing the START_TO_START_INTERVAL functionality, but I did not
>> expect random start times.
>>
>> I appreciate any recommendations you can make.
>
>
> If you have systemd on these machines, you might consider using a timer
> unit. It looks like you should be able to specify a delay since the last run
> of the unit finished before restarting it. That would avoid overlapping
> runs.